Title: The Postcolonial Museum: The Arts of Memory and the Pressures of History
Abstract: Contents: Introduction: disruptive encounters - museums, arts and postcoloniality, Alessandra De Angelis, Celeste Ianniciello, Mariangela Orabona and Michaela Quadraro. Part I Global Migrations, Transcultural Heritage: A museum without objects, Francoise Verges Decolonising national museums of ethnography in Europe: exposing and reshaping colonial heritage (2000-2012), Felicity Bodenstein and Camilla Pagani Colonial spaces, postcolonial narratives: the exhibitionary landscape of Fort Cochin in India, Neelima Jeychandran Ethnographic museums: from colonial exposition to intercultural dialogue, Fabienne Boursiquot. Part II Artistic Incursions in Space and Time: 'There is not yet a world', Ebadur Rahman The artist as interlocutor and the labour of memory, Mihaela Brebenel, Christopher Collier and Joanna Figiel Performance in the museum space (for a wandering society), Margherita Parati. Part III Disorienting the Museum: 'Museo diffuso': performing memory in public spaces, Viviana Gravano Mining the museum in an age of migration, Anne Ring Petersen Blurring history: the Central European museum and the schizophrenia of capital, Ivan Jurica The limits to institutional change: organisational roles and roots, Peggy Levitt. Part IV Representation and Beyond: The incurable image: curation and repetition on a tri-continental scene, Tarek Elhaik The postcolonial 'exhibitionary complex': the role of the international expo in migrating and multicultural societies, Stefania Zuliani Orientalism and the politics of contemporary art exhibitions, Alessandra Marino What museum for Africa?, Itala Vivan. Part V Future Memories, Alternative Archives: Egyptian chemistry: from postcolonial to post-humanist matters, Ursula Biemann 'The lived moment': new aesthetics for migrant recollection, Peter Leese Coding/decoding the archive, David Gauthier and Erin La Cour Afterword: after the museum, Iain Chambers. Index.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-03-20
Language: en
Type: book
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